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I was in a meeting the other day when I encountered a bizarre exchange between a project manager and her project sponsor. I followed up after the meeting with both of them individually to try and figure out what was going on behind the scenes—clearly, such strange reactions indicated some political intrigue was brewing in the back rooms and hallways of the organization.
I had the pleasure to be a guest lecturer recently for a project management fundamentals course at Trent University in Peterborough, Ontario. While I’ve lectured in this way many times over the years for many different institutions, I was struck by the unique approach that this course used for teaching the project management basics.
A short article by agile expert Kevin Aguanno on how to closely manage changes to project scope in agile projects so that you do not exceed contractual timelines/budgets.
by Kevin Aguanno, PMP, IPMA-B, MAPM
A sample spreadsheet with Visual Basic programming to assist you in preparing a Sprint Burndown Chart from the remaining effort estimates you capture in your daily Scrum meetings.
An MS Excel spreadsheet.
A reprinted article by Kevin Aguanno.
"Critical Path: An Extended Definition" is an article by Kevin Aguanno. This article was the first of several in a series of extended definitions of common project management terms and techniques. The collected set was to be used in a textbook for beginning students of project management.
The publisher of the textbook later canceled the project, returning the copyrights of the articles to their authors.
An Adobe PDF file.
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A reprinted article by Kevin Aguanno.
"Beyond the PMP: Advanced Project Management Certification" is an article by Kevin Aguanno. This article first appeared in the December 2002 issue of PM World Today, and is archived on the web site of the PM Forum at www.pmforum.org/pmwt02/papers02-12.htm.
An Adobe PDF file.
An article by Kevin Aguanno.
"'Business Value' as a Factor in Software Design Projects" is a reprinted article by Kevin Aguanno. This article first appeared in the September 2002 issue of Project Magazine. Since then, it has been reprinted in the October 2002 electronic magazine of PM Boulevard.
A reprinted article by Kevin Aguanno.
"Understanding Overtime Scheduling Impacts Using the Critical Resource Path" is an article by Kevin Aguanno. This article first appeared as “Using the Critical Resource Path” in the May 2002 issue of Project Magazine. Since then, it has been abstracted in the August 2002 issue of Projects & Profits, reprinted on the Web site of AllPM.org, and published in the MBA programme text Readings in Project Management published by the Institute of Chartered Financial Analysts of India (ICFAI) - Centre for Management Research.
A sample file used on project closeout to report the final project financial summary to the customer. From Kevin's upcoming book Project Closeout Best Practices.
An MSWord document.
A checklist to be used at project closeout for ensuring that all key project closeout activities have been completed. From Kevin's upcoming book Project Closeout Best Practices.
An MSWord document.